A new pharmacy on E. Sta-
dium Blvd. celebrated its grand 
opening on Tuesday. Ann Arbor 
Pharmacy is an apothecary of-
fering customers service using 
a European and Middle Eastern 
approach. 
Manager Ziad Ghamraoui said 
he wanted to change the way his 
neighbors and other members 
of the Ann Arbor community 

received health and beauty sup-
plies. After owning two pharma-
cies in the area, he decided to 
take a different approach to his 
new business endeavor. 
“I wanted … my community to 
have access to high-end, organic 
products,” Ghamraoui said. “I 
didn’t want to carry the main-
stream stuff, so (I) decided to opt 
to carry high-quality products 
that you can’t find at a normal 
pharmacy.” 
These products include soaps, 
herbal and homeopathic medi-

cation, as well as high potency 
multivitamins. Ghamraoui said 
he was deliberate in the products 
that he chose to carry. 
“Everything in the store is very 
well-curated,” Ghamraoui said. 
“We went through a very selec-
tive process and chose pretty 
much some of the best names out 
there that we believe the commu-
nity can use and is to their best 
interest.”
Nursing sophomore Caroline 
Baubonis said the pharmacy pre-
sented a creative take on self care.
“Opening organic pharma-
cies in Ann Arbor expands the 
realm of medicine beyond the 
laboratory,” Baubonis said. 
Ghamraoui said he aims to 
change the speed and efficien-
cy in which customers receive 
their prescriptions. 
“Usually it takes 15, 20, 30 
minutes to get your prescrip-
tions,” Ghamraoui said. “If 
you’ve been to the Middle East 
or Europe, you’re in and out in 
minutes. It shouldn’t take hours 
to fill a prescription, so we are a 
pharmacy that has a profession-
al staff that allows people to be 
in and out in seconds. We pride 
ourselves on this.” 
Ghamraoui said while his 
staff is not comprised of physi-
cians, they are knowledgeable 
in customer service and indi-
vidualized patient care. 
“Our staff went to school for 
health care and did services on 
dermatology,” Ghamraoui said. 
“We have a background. We 
may not be certified as physi-
cians but we know about skin 
care and the pharmacists are 

the most accessible health care 
professionals.”
The design of the pharmacy 
mimics a European boutique and 
was created by Lisa Suave, a de-
signer at Synecdoche Designs. 
Ghamraoui praised Suave’s work.
“I told her this is what I want 
— this is what international phar-
macies look like,” Ghamraoui said. 
“She did a good job on my vision.”
LSA 
sophomore 
Maxine 
Taskin stopped into the phar-
macy to take a look. She said she 
thought the store was a good 
complement to the local business 
community.
“I think that this is a great ad-
dition to both the Ann Arbor and 
University of Michigan com-
munity,” Taskin said. “Many stu-
dents have specific health or skin 
problems that they either have 
to order a variety of expensive 
products online to treat, or have 
to deal with alone and away from 
home. Having a resource to help 
not only provide high-end prod-
ucts but help diagnose specific is-
sues is amazing.” 
Ghamraoui said a lot of friends 
and local business owners attend-
ed a grand opening party, medi-
ated by the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti 
Regional Chamber of Commerce. 
 
“We were offering discounts 
and lots of people bought lots of 
products at the grand opening 
sale price,” Ghamraoui said. “It 
was very humbling … My mom 
and dad happened to be in town 
and beat the storm (that night), 
so I was happy they were there. 
We brought some sweets from 
Lebanon and Syria and catered 
Lebanese food.”

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